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Whether people want it or not is not relevant to my posts - I'm looking at the possibility of the private sector taking over this function. Popularity is a different discussion.
Most legal documents carry a state seal, require a witness signature and a notary seal, which seem good enough today for affidavits, oaths, applications, deeds, and contracts.
That was already addressed - lower cost, competition and slimmer margins will lower the cost vs. government doing the same thing. Privatization does not have to benefit society - government certainly doesn't benefit society all the time or even most of the time, even though government sells itself that way.
You haven't shown any of these things would occur, particularly for something like a marriage license which only now costs less than $100 at its most expensive, despite it being run by the government, and it is less than the cost of most legal documents offered privately that do much less in most places.
Changing to privatizing something should have some shown benefit, not just be done to do it. It is stupid to do it just to do it.